what a sentence 😂 my man bertie read plato's republic, joined a debating society and started thinking about reforming society
the late 1800s were a heady and exciting time to be alive before WW1, Spanish Flu, etc. Science & tech advancements just kept happening– electricity...
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"Important public men like yourself are not “common men”. Of course, history alone can show how important this or that public man has been; at all events, you do not look at the world as a “common man”." – Stalin, to HG Wells
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"Newspapers are unreliable ... people might prefer to receive a constantly updated news summary through their telephones." ~ HG Wells, 1943
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Heed the words of HG Wells, "civilization is a race between education and catastrophe."
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So my thoughts are stuff like: hg wells. Credited for popularising the idea of time travel, actually coined the phrase “time machine” and was one of only two people who more or less founded an entirely new genre of fiction
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"A lifelong habit of thought stands between him and an understanding of Hitler's power."
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A critical essay by Orwell re: HG Wells' relevance circa 1941: web.archive.org/web/2016011808
"Wells is too sane to understand the modern world."
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"Go on muddling, each for himself and his parish and his family and none for all the world, go on in the old way [...] presently I will come back again and take all the fresh harvest of life I have spared."
clearly a predecessor to Mass Effect's Reapers
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HG Wells, writing in 1916, about the worst possible post-WWI scenario, which did come to pass.
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Nothing reminds me of #HG_Wells quite like the contrast between a hotel's elevators and its stairwells.
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"The true strength of rulers and empires lies... in the belief of men that they are inflexibly open, truthful, and legal. As soon as government departs from that standard, it ceases to be anything more than "the gang in possession" and its days are numbered." – H.G. Wells
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Little Wars
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wargaming was invented in prussia and used for military training; attracted attention b/c they beat france in a war in 1870
h.g. wells "developed codified rules for playing with toy soldiers, which he published in a book titled Little Wars." adorable!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wargame#W
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figures you have an h.g. wells thread 😛 your boy bertie got up to a lot of stuff, what an inspiration
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Got to Bertie via Chesterton via Shaw
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cute/sweet exchange between Wells and Chesterton
Wells: if there is a God I hope he'll let me into heaven because I am your friend
GKC: my dear HG, if there is a heaven, you will be welcome to it- and not for being my friend, but for being a friend to all men
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wholesome 😭
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